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CFCI Grantee Resource Hub

Partnering with LA County’s Justice, Care and Opportunities Department to administer both grant funding and key technical assistance to community-based organizations that support recovery, reentry, prevention, and public safety through building community.

If you’re a CFCI grantee – welcome! You’ve come to the right place.

Here you’ll find everything you need to succeed – webinar recordings, informative slide decks, templates, and other helpful tools.

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Sign up to receive updates on requests for proposals for the LA County Justice, Care, and Opportunities Department’s Care First Community Investment Grant & get the latest in technical assistance, templates, and webinars from Amity’s TPA team.
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Resources for Grantees

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Budget Template Form
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Technical Assistance

Have a question? Contact us anytime at: TPAawards@amityfdn.org

Year 3: CFCI Spending Plan Highlights

The Board of Supervisors approved a $88.3 million CFCI Spending Plan——with Year 3 allocations to further advance Los Angeles County’s “Care First, Jails Last” vision. This third annual investment adds to the first and second year’s CFCI investment of $287.7 million funding, with the total CFCI investment now at $376 million. The approved spending plan, developed with an equity lens, funds all 45 programs recommended by the Care First Community Investment Advisory Committee. This 23-member committee held marathon public meetings and engaged the community via listening sessions, a community survey and the engagement of trusted community-based organizations. The result is a plan that focuses on chronically under-resourced communities, and will address negative outcomes caused by racially-driven criminal justice inequities and long-term community economic disinvestment.

Highlights of the funding plan include:

  • Over $58 million will be administered by a Third-Party Administrator with the majority of funds passing through to community-based organizations.
  • Over $32 million will be dedicated to programs prioritizing youth development.
  • Over $18 million will support rental assistance and housing for our most vulnerable populations.
  • Over $13 million will provide access to funding for small, minority-owned businesses.
  • Over $9 million will fund job training and employment.
  • Over $7 million will go towards restorative justice.
  • Over $5 million will support community-based health services.
  • Over $1 million will fund programs for non-carceral diversion or to support residents returning to the community after incarceration.

View the full details of the Year 3 programs & spending plan here.

Year 2: Spending Plan Highlights

Highlights of the funding plan include:

  • More than $45 million dedicated to housing, with more than $42 million dedicated to permanent housing for the County’s most vulnerable populations.
  • More than $40 million administered by a third-party administrator with the majority of funds passing through to community-based organizations. County departments will be encouraged to distribute most of their funding directly to community-based providers as well.
  • Nearly $20 million dedicated to programs prioritizing youth development.
  • More than $14.5 million to fund violence prevention.
  • More than $11 million to fund programs for non-carceral diversion or to support residents returning to the community after incarceration.
  • More than $8 million to fund education or job training.

View the full details of the Year 3 programs & spending plan here.

In Year 2, The Board of Supervisors approved a $100 million Care First Community Investment (CFCI) Spending Plan—with Year 2 allocations to further advance Los Angeles County’s “Care First, Jails Last” vision with direct community investments and funding for alternatives to incarceration. This second annual investment of $100 million advanced the County’s commitment to build up to the full CFCI set aside by 2024 and it added to the first year’s CFCI investment of $187.7 million, which includes American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding.

 

Year 1: Spending Plan Highlights

The Board of Supervisors approved an unprecedented $187.7 million spending package to advance its “Care First, Jails Last” vision with a series of direct community investments and funding for alternatives to incarceration—accelerating the transformative process of creating a more just and equitable County for all residents. The spending plan fully embraced the spirit of the voter-approved Measure J and also took the innovative step of leveraging one-time funding from the American Rescue Plan to ensure a strong foundation for programs to ramp up as full funding levels are reached by 2024.

 

Highlights of the funding plan include:

  • $42 million to support the closure of Men’s Central Jail.
  • $8 million for community-based pretrial services in highly impacted communities, replacing law-enforcement supervision and pretrial incarceration for eligible individuals.
  • $20.9 million to support youth at risk of involvement with the justice system or already involved in the justice system.
  • $16 million for housing and related services to meet a variety of needs including for people experiencing homelessness with complex health needs; people with substance use disorder and at-risk and system-impacted youth and transition-age youth.
  • $15 million to support residents returning to the community after incarceration.
  • $9 million in supports for people experiencing substance use disorder and to prevent drug-related harm and death.

View the full details of the Year 3 programs & spending plan here.

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